to be sick of all the 'offended' people out there?

[MooMooFarm]

I can't get away from them! Soooooo many threads on here seem to centre around somebody being offended about something; and it's usually nothing to get bothered about IMO.

Why have we all turned Victorian? What is so shocking about somebody having a heated argument on tv; seeing somebody with not many clothes on (but all the dodgy bits covered); letting our children play dressing up; etc, etc, etc???

I could go on as it seems like every other thread on here in AIBU in particular centres on somebody being 'offended'. And I'm sick of it! Get a life, stop being so fecking Mary Whitehouse-esque, and don't look/do something else if you don't like it! What's happened to freedom of expression??

Aaaahhhh!

Then there's the mil threads.....

I think MN should start a 'topic' heading of 'What's Offending Us Today' so all the grumpies can vent on there and leave the rest of MN free of their twaddle.

MIL's don't count - sorry to disagree! I reserve the right to slate mine

I reserve the right to express offense when I like.

So ner

I can't help wondering what all these people do when something 'truly' offensive happens in the world? Actually they probably ignore it because they haven't seen it on ITV or in Heat magazine. Sorry if my comments offend anyone

Absolutely grin]ing at this one Moomoo.....

YADDDDNBU!

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YANBU. It drives me mad. I think people use it on here to "win" an argument, or gain the moral high ground.

yanbu at all
like you say if people don't like a certain tv programme then don't watch it.if you don't like your dd's dressing up in shoes with a tiny heel don't buy them.simple.
its a shame some people don't have anything better to do than whittle on about being offended by something that really they just don't like not that offends them at all.

My recent favourite was when someone said that a fairly standard English phrase was offensive because they'd looked it up in a dictionary and its origins were something to do with domestic violence or the slave trade (I forget which) If you have to look something up in order to be offended, I think that's probably taking things a little too far....

MooMooFarm - other people can't post about the things that offend them, but aren't you doing exactly that in your OP? You haven't used the word 'offended' but your offendedness comes across very clearly, imo.

YANBU.

At all.

Yes. If you don't agree with what the person is offended about, tell them!. Or don't read the thread. I may have misunderstood, but I thought MN was about expressing opinions ....

@SDTG... I think the OP is sounding 'irritated', 'annoyed' or even 'bemused' but I don't get that they aren't being offended on an oh-so personal level....

In essence, you've started a thread to bitch about people. Do it to their faces.

I sometimes wonder if people are really as easily 'shocked' as they make out.

staying it doesn't 'offend' me, I am just bored to death of hearing it. That's not the same thing!

Bigotry offends me, not a little girl dressing up in ruby slippers!

There are some trigger words, have you noticed, for the heinous charge of offence? These words appear quite innocently in a sentence and get immediately seized upon and brandished high in a 'kill the heretic' kind of fashion. I can't use any of them, obviously, for fear of ... causing offence!

Not trying to be argumentative, but I don't really think a thread on AIBU about AIBU is going behind anyone's back.

I can't do it to their faces - I don't know where they live! And if I found out I may get arrested

MooMoo - their metaphorical faces

Heathcliff - I think sometimes people post when they are in a state of high emotion, so do sometimes go over the top with their language.

YANBU

Someone got offended by CBeebies not so long ago!I wish I had the time!Some people are very bored.....

Yanbu- the most yawn inducing ones, have to be either the shock horror gasp ones at 'girls clothes are in pink!!!!!' ones. Buy ones in other colours then, major fucking yawn.

Or the pregnant, going all out to be offended by people asking questions about the pregnancy. Random questions from strangers like 'are you having a girl/boy' blah blah, resulting in poster getting all upset. Yod swear the person has called them a c**t. Disclaimer - I am 6 months preggers.

Or some of the feminist ones (gets trainers on to run from thread)- some bloke looked at me in wrong way. With posters weighing in to call him a misogynistic pig.

at Junebugjr!